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In the sweet illustrations that depict a sun-drenched meadow filled with loving animal families children can find and count not only the animal babies, but background details that also correspond to the numbers in the classic song.
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The animal cast of this 19th-century counting rhyme has been subject to many variations; here, Vojtech (Tough Beginnings: How Baby Animals Survive, 2001, etc.) chooses a set and arranges them on oversized pages in intimate gatherings of smiling, smoothly painted single-parent families. She places them into an idyllic meadow scattered with appropriate numbers of bugs, flowers, and other items for enthusiastic young counters to enumerate. There's no musical arrangement for the odd parent who doesn't already know the tune, and despite mother beaver's order to "beave," her ten offspring are shown asleep-but children will find this rendition easier on the eye than the frantic Langstaff/Rojankovsky edition (1957, 1985), or Ezra Jack Keats's self-consciously arty version (1971). (Picture book. 4-6) (Kirkus Reviews) --Kirkus Reviews
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'Over in the meadow in the sand in the sun Lived an old mother turtle and her little turtle one.' So begins this classic nursery poem, written by Olive A. Wadsworth in the late 19th century, a favourite counting rhyme for generations of children. Anna Vojtech's sweet illustrations depict a sun-drenched meadow filled with loving animal families - from mother turtle with her one baby to ten little beavers embraced by their doting mother. There's lots to count in the cleverly designed pictures, and sharp-eyed youngsters will delight in finding a corresponding number of background details on each spread.
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Over the Meadow: Counting Rhym
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ISBN 10: 0735815976
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